Encoding human values into technology risks “value lock-in”—cementing both our ideals and our blind spots. This essay explores how revision-friendly protocols and plural audits are vital to preventing ethical stagnation, ensuring that AI and tech systems remain open to challenge, adaptation, and true moral progress.

SE Press treats ethical choice under uncertainty as a transparent, auditable process—mapping harms, values, probabilities, and dissent; every decision is provisional, versioned, and repaired through public challenge and adaptation.